On Thu, 24 May 2001, Timothy J. Massey wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2001 09:36:14 -0700, Willow Schlanger wrote:
>
> >Cool. Thanks. Ummm.. do you know of any drivers for DOS that provide
> >access to an NE 2K and provide a TCP IP stack... and I've never directly
> >interfaced with a TCP/IP stack before. All I want to do is be able to
> >send and receive from one PC to anotother (and back from the another PC
> >to the one PC :-)
>
> They're called packet drivers. They use interrupt 0x60 to do their
> magic. They come with the majority of NIC's right on the driver disk.
>
> If you can't find it there, search around the Internet for DOS packet
> drivers and a TCP/IP stack for DOS packet drivers. Unless you use DOS
> you don't need them, and I don't know of too many DOS computers on the
> Internet, so I don't know of too many people actually using them today;
> in 1995, however, they were very popular, and I know that a lot of
> that info is still online today. Unfortunately, I don't have URL's...
>
> In other words, do some research!
Try doing a search for 'CRYNWR' - IIRC they wrote some freeware drivers.
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